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Pathway to Hell: A Tragedy of the American Civil War by Dennis W. Brandt, Lehigh University Press, 2010, $44.50 A member of the famed Pennsylvania “Bucktails,” Angelo Crapsey marched off to war with chest-pounding patriotic ardor and...

Calling the oyster cops I read with interest your article on the CSS Shenandoah and Captain James I. Waddell (March 2010). Your readers might be interested to know that Captain Waddell was commander of the Maryland State Oyster Police from...

New Jersey Goes to War: Biographies of 150 New Jerseyans Caught Up in the Struggle of the Civil War, Including Soldiers Civilians, Men, Women, Heroes, Scoundrels—and a Heroic Horse edited by Joseph G. Bilby, New Jersey Civil War Heritage...

Jews and the Civil War: A Reader edited by Jonathan D. Sarna and Adam Mendelsohn, New York University Press, 2010, $45 On December 17, 1862, in the midst of his trying Mississippi Campaign, Ulysses S. Grant issued what was probably the...

Ironing out our differences I have been reading Civil War history for about 10 years, but I do not remember any piece that I enjoyed and appreciated as much as Winston Groom’s “Irreconcilable Differences” (September 2010). It...

The improbable life and times of Henry Francisco. Henry Francisco was no stranger to the battlefield when the American Revolution broke out virtually on his doorstep in the winter of 1776–77. Given an imminent British invasion of upper...

It was a sweet assignment right up my writing alley: A narrative about the D-Day invasion to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Allied attack that marked the beginning of the end for Nazi Germany. My newspaper, the Daily Press of...

A son discovers his father’s command in the Pacific War. William Faulkner wrote a lot of things worthy of the Nobel Prize. One of them was this: “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” Call it Faulkner’s Law, and here is...

Captain John Cromwell U.S. Navy Medal of Honor Caroline Islands Nov. 19, 1943 In November 1943, U.S. Navy Captain John Philip Cromwell fought a deadly game with the Japanese and lost. But with his noble sacrifice, he became the...

Artist-engineer Alexander Lippisch conceived more than 50 radical aircraft designs, including the Nazis’ rocket-powered Me-163. Few aircraft configurations are more familiar than the delta wing, which dominated the sky for many years,...

Hero Found: The Greatest POW Escape of the Vietnam War by Bruce Henderson, Harper, New York, $27.99 Dieter Dengler was born and raised to be a prisoner of war. That opinion isn’t rooted in a belief in fate but in the resourcefulness,...

In World War I Africa, an obscure German officer became one of the world’s best unconventional warriors. Starting from the Engare-Nairobi, small detachments of eight to 10 men, Europeans and Askari, rode round the rear of the enemy’s...

Private Henry L. Hulbert U.S. Marine Corps Medal of Honor Samoa, 1899 By the time he died in a hail of German machine-gun fire on France’s Blanc Mont Ridge on Oct. 4, 1918, 1st Lt. Henry L. Hulbert was already a Marine Corps legend. And...

Aces High by Bill Yenne, Berkley Caliber, New York, 2009, $25.95. Bill Yenne’s name on the cover is reason enough to buy this book, since he has produced a seemingly unending series of high-quality books that could serve as foundation...

Why the endless fascination with a woman who by most accounts was a mediocre pilot, best known for disappearing in the Pacific? With the exception of two or three famous astronauts, there are only four pilots in the entire history of...

Pfc. Dan Bullock died at age 15 in 1969 and efforts to recognize the young African-American Marine continue and are highlighted in this Military Times documentary. (Rodney Bryant and Daniel Woolfolk/Military Times)...

From 1869 to 1901, five U.S. Presidents were Civil War veterans who had served in the Union armies. Four were generals. (All photographs: Library of Congress)...

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